242 NATURAL HISTORY OF SELBORNE. 



year do not always survive the winter. In August their holes begin 

 to be obliterated, and the insects are seen no more till spring. 



Not many summers ago I endeavoured to transplant a colony to 

 the terrace in my garden, by boring deep holes in the sloping turf- 

 The new inhabitants stayed some time, and fed and sung ; but 

 wandered away by degrees, and were heard at a farther distance 

 every morning, so that it appears that on this emergency they 

 made use of their wings in attempting to return to the spot from 

 which they were taken. 



One of these crickets when confined in a paper cage and set in 

 the sun, and supplied with plants moistened with water, will feed 

 and thrive, and become so merry and loud as to be irksome in the 

 same room where a person is sitting ; if the plants are not wetted 

 it will die. 



